Gorth

With a member no. of #666 what did you expect ?

*Mumbles something about Eldar, CoF and Mattresses...* :rolleyes:"

Heh, good idea... Jags for Mod! Edit: But only if he promises crates and ritual virgin sacrifices :D

Not sure how JE looks like or how it plays, but part of the IE games charm was the party based adventuring. And, that you could use terrain in the tactical combat (i.e. move around, use area effect weapons, ranged weapons, melee weapons etc. all at the same time). Something that I found NWN (and Kotor1&2 for that matter) woefully inept at in singleplayer mode... While I still have a game of BG2 going, NWN and the Kotors are gone. They might be technological advances, but they just aren't as fun. Heck, for all it's primitiveness, even Ultima IV is more fun :cool:

"Urrrhhhhh..... Braaains!....." :)"

Improved General Circle Detection Algorithm Tomasz Macura This paper considers the problem of detecting circles in binary images on parallel computers. The author presents improvements to the General Circle Detection Algorithm (GCDA) that was invented by A. Kavaianpour, S. Shoari, and N. Bagherzadeh. The GCDA is based on a transformation that converts circles in an image to families of straight lines. This reduces the problem of circle detection to that of line detection which may be solved by any line detection algorithm. Theoretical analysis of the performance of the Improved General Circle Detection Algorithm (IGCDA) suggests that speedup will be linear. The author's implementation of the IGCDA on a Beowulf cluster of generic personal computers achieved the predicted speedup. Faculty mentor: Matthias K. Gobbert http://www.math.umbc.edu/~gobbert/teaching...ports/macura.ps Not sure how efficient algorithms you are looking for Edit: If you are looking for something in pdf format: http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/~qji/Papers/paa_paper.pdf

Nationstates is hilarious, at least for a while until the events gets recycled Unfortunately, my old country (Gorthovania) doesn't exist anymore in the region of The Black Isle... (your country goes poof, if you don't make decisions for more than a month) So start up again, and join Obsidian! I just lodged a request there, to see if is possible to get it restored :cool:

Nationstates is hilarious, at least for a while until the events gets recycled Unfortunately, my old country (Gorthovania) doesn't exist anymore in the region of The Black Isle... (your country goes poof, if you don't make decisions for more than a month)

No, we're gonna pull uncle Bushies sleeve and remind him that we're part of his puny Coalition, he'll then (hopefully ) torpedo Canada for us as to return the favour. That would be a hard choice. Canada is our right hand. Depends who has the most oil. Who ever has the most Bush will think of some conspiracy to invade them. That would be Norway

Looks like the war is postponed a bit... :-" Edit: Ok boys, you can go home again!

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from Wikipedia: Mead is a fermented alcoholic beverage made of honey, water, and yeast. It is sometimes known as "honey wine" (for obvious reasons) and is generally pronounced "meed" (IPA: /miːd/), though South Africans usually pronounce it "med", to rhyme with "red" (IPA: /mɛd/). In Norse mythology, mead was the favorite drink of the Norse gods and heroes, e.g. in Valhalla, and the mead of Suttung, made from the blood of Kvasir, was the source of wisdom and poetry. The nectar and ambrosia of the Greek gods were probably draughts of fermented honey. A mead that also contains spices (like cloves, cinnamon or nutmeg) or herbs (such as oregano or even lavender or chamomile) is called metheglin. The etymon of this word is the Welsh word meddyglyn, meaning "medicinal liquor", as healing herbs were often stored as metheglin so they would be available over the winter (as well as making them much easier to swallow). Slavic miod/med, which means "honey", derives from the same Proto-Indo-European root. A mead that contains fruit (such as strawberry, blackcurrant or even rose-hips) is called melomel and was also used as a delicious way to "store" summer produce for the winter. Mulled mead is a popular winter holiday drink, where mead is flavoured with spices and warmed, traditionally by having a hot poker plunged into it. Hippocras is spiced grape wine sweetened with honey. A grape-based wine with added honey is called a pyment. Cyser is made with (hard) apple cider and honey; braggot or bracket is made with malted barley and honey. Mead is awesome. I'm all for making it the national beverage of Denmark again :cool:

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I don't know if the typo was intentional, but it strangely enough makes sense. I wouldn't mind a bit of regress to get another Torment :'(

Hey You! Yes, you the blasphemer. Crawl on your knees and seek forgiveness in the temple of Torment... :D

A few months ago, in a similar thread (about player character names, not forum names) somebody suggested to me, to shuffle the letters around a bit. Might just try Throg the Barbarian when I get to play IWD2 again

Isn't Vlad the Impaler sort of a hometown hero for you Baley ?

It's quite disturbing you know. I saw Planet of the Apes the other day and I kept thinking about fruit... :cool: Anyway, cool avatar you found there

I guess it does take a fruitcake to challenge a chimp

Give it up K3 Orangeq3, Citrusq3, Grapefruitq3, Limeq3.... You might as well stay Kumquatq3.

This thread has potential... :D

I've been "Gorth" since before half the board members were born (20+ years), wouldn't really feel comfortable with anything else :ph34r:

An old dead guy: http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/documents/Cic.html

"Kindergarten Cop" to celebrate your mod status in WoT "Mr. Verbosity" because of your wordcount :D "Gandhi" because you always try the peaceful solution first :cool: "Lorem Ipsum"... well figure that one out "Euclid", well you try to teach us manners if nothing else Could go on for a long time. Point is, it's pointless. You will always be "Eldar"